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Nursing Process
The nursing process guides nurses through the task of finding a fitting therapy plan for a patients problems.
It is embedded into the patients life cycle, which is also shortly outlined on this page.
The Patients Life Cycle
When a new patient comes into a nursing center, the nurses have to find out about his overall situation first, so they can treat him as the individual which he is.
During this first anamnesis they gather all data available, including medical records, his preferences etc.
Based on this information, a basic therapy plan is initiated for the patient.
This therapy plan may include tasks like a special diet (maybe he is a diabetic), some kinds of exercise therapy, or anything else.
During his stay at the nursing center, there may come up situations, where his therapy plan has to be adapted.
For example, the patient gets sick and can't go out for his daily walks in the park anymore, or he has some other problems which require a change in his daily routine.
These adaptations to his therapy plan are guided by the nursing process.
When the patient leaves the nursing center, a final report is generated.
The nursing process
The nursing process is a cybernetic control loop, thus guiding the adaptations to a patients therapy plan. It consists of the following steps:
- Do Nursing anamnesis: First of all, the nurse has to find out and express, what the patients problems are. These could be symptoms like coughs, has 38° and feels cold all the time
- Set nursing diagnosis: Based on these symptoms, we can find possible diagnoses. These diagnoses are saved in the NNN Repository.
- Determine nursing goals: Each diagnosis contains a set of goals. The nurse now has to decide, which goal the patient is likely to achieve, and which are not possible based on the patients overall condition. These nursing goals are the basis for the latter evaluation.
- Design therapy plan: The therapy plan consists of a set of nursing steps, which are also part of the diagnosis in the NNN Repository. The nurse now has to decide, which steps should be used to treat the patients problems.
- Adapt therapy process: The therapy the nurse has created in the last step now gets inserted into the patients therapy plan. Additionally it may also be necessary to adapt existing therapies, if they interfere with the new one.
- Evaluate therapy: After the therapy has been executed, the effects are evaluated. Especially the accomplishment of the prior defined nursing goals is of interest.
Letzte Änderung: 11.07.2014, 12:38 | 427 Worte